I agree. I remember when he had died and people were either glad that he had died (cuz now he wouldn’t “bother” Shin anymore) or said that they didn’t care (cuz he wasn’t an important character for them), and some even said that he deserved it (cuz that’s the path he “chose”) or that it was expected (cuz “all addicts die”). I was baffled by people’s prejudices, insensitivity, indifference and callousness. Regardless if he was a drug addict and they hadn’t been in contact for a while, he was still Shin’s closest kin, not all addicts die or even deserve to die, and it wasn’t his fault so yeah, I felt very bas for Gren too ╥﹏╥
Finally someone who is on the same page as me. I had to skip the smut scene after his death bcs it just didn’t feel right. And the fact that he was trying so hard to come clean for his hyung :(( made me so sad. I was hoping for him to actually become clean and run away from the thug life and then start going to school. But I guess the author just has different plans for him. May he rest in peace :((
I know! He loved his hyung so! I was rooting for him too and hoping that he would be able to turn his life round and like you said, go to school and maybe even become a sculptor like Matthew in UTGL but no ╥﹏╥ yeah, the author really dgaf about him which we could clearly tell by all the names he had, I commented about this very thing a long time ago wondering if the inconsistency with his name was a sloppy miss by the author or a translation error but I think it’s the former since she killed him off. Throughout the story his name was: Gren Heim, Grens Heim, Grens Heims, Gren Heims. Like?(TДT)

Man can we all take a moment to grieve Gren’s death, his character is so tragic. Yeah sure both him and Shin almost led the same life and suffered the same, both of them just chose different ways of surviving. It just so happens that Gren isnt the main character and therefore he doesn’t have the plot armor on him. I hope Gren lives a good life on his next one (even tho this is entirely fictional).